This week: the hosts introduce themselves, we’ve made a huge mistake, masked vigilantes are cryptids, the Skullm’n may or may not be getting up to something behind a convenience store, it’s always Golgom, and this anime already doesn’t make sense.

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Introductions

What We Talk About When We Talk About Shotaro Ishinomori

The Skull Man (1970) and The Skull Man (1998) briefly discussed

Tatsuo Kagura is the worst

Doing weird dramatic things when you’re alone for funsies

Project Gagou

The Skull Man (2007) 1-3

Sweet sweet music

Papers Please 2

Confusing vague alternate history geopolitics

Hayato’s memory is a garbage fire

Anime was a mistake, as always

Bathtub Darkroom Destruction

Shakespeare makes everything spookier

The White Bell Association is definitely not a cult, who told you that